After Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar refused to even acknowledge the Left parties’ interest for a poll alliance and went ahead with announcing the first list of candidates for the forthcoming Assembly elections (2023), well-wishers of the Congress and Left parties are trying to create space for both the groups to come to an understanding.
Some political activists from both Congress and the Left parties – CPI and CPI (M) discussed the possibilities of an alliance though officially leaders of both these groups have remained silent so far. The initial talks only stressed the need for an alliance to defeat KCR and apparently was taken at the initiative of AICC incharge for Telangana Manikrao Thakare.
The Left parties are seething with anger against Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao for ‘cheating’ and ‘neglecting’ them after using them in the Munugode bypoll to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “They believed that KCR would give them respectable seats in the Assembly elections while taking their help in Munugode,” a senior Congress leader in favour of an alliance said.
